IN THE BEGINNING, GOD...

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All great stories have a beginning - and this is truest for the greatest Story of all time - the only Story that starts at the foundations of the earth, echoes through all the generations of humanity, the Story of the Eternal and His Radical Love for us. 

In order to understand the Eternal, we must begin at the very beginning - Genesis 1.

"In the beginning, God..." is the first line of the entire Word of God. In the beginning, He created everything. 

Genesis unravels the start of this beautiful Love Letter we have from the Creator, which reveals to us His Plans and Purposes for His creation.

Let us dive deep into the beginning of the Word and soak in all the beauty He has given to us in His Love Letter.

ABOUT GENESIS

• Genesis is the first book of the Bible
• Written by: * Moses (traditionally attributed to him)
• It has 50 chapters
• It has 1,533 verses
• FUN FACTS: 

1.) While written primarily in Ancient Hebrew, it contains some words in Aramaic and some in Egyptian

2.) The Hebrew name for Genesis is Bereshit, which means "in the beginning"

3.) Although we don't know the exact amount of time covered in Genesis, we do know that at least 2,200 years were covered and out of those 2,200 years, chapters 12-50 covered  only about 400 years of ancestral history.

• KEY STORIES:

- Creation

- The Garden of Eden

- The Fall of Man

- Cain and Abel

- Noah and the Flood

- The Tower of Babel

- The Call of Abraham

- Sodom and Gommorah

- Isaac and Jacob

- Joseph and Egypt

• KEY CHARACTERS

- Adam and Eve

- Cain and Abel

- Noah

- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

- Sarah and Hagar

- Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel

- Joseph

• OUTLINE OF GENESIS:

CHAPTER 1

Creation

CHAPTER 2

Seventh day of creation

Adam and Eve in the Garden 

CHAPTER 3

Their expulsion from the Garden

CHAPTER 4

Adam and Eve’s family

CHAPTER 5

Blessings

“Image of God” from Adam to Noah

CHAPTER 6

Procreation, perversions and fallen angels

Noah and the corrupted world

Judgment and the Ark

CHAPTER 7

The Ark

The Flood

CHAPTER 8

God’s remembrance and rescue of Noah

Exiting the Ark

Worship and the promise

CHAPTER 9

God’s covenant with the new world

Noah’s sons and future blessing

CHAPTER 10

Table of Nations

CHAPTER 11

Tower of Babylon

Abram’s family line

Abram’s beginning

CHAPTER 12

Abram’s obedience

Abram and Sarah in Egypt

CHAPTER 13

Abram and Lot

CGAPTER 14

Abram’s faithfulness

CHAPTER 15

Covenant promises confirmed

CHAPTER 16 

Abram’s firstborn son, Ishmael

CHAPTER 17

Covenant sign of circumcision

CHAPTER 18-19

Divine judgment and mercy

CHAPTER 20

Promises preserved

CHAPTER 21

Abraham’s promised son: the birth of Isaac

Treaty with Abimelech

CHAPTER 22

Abraham’s test

Rebekah’s family line

CHAPTER 23

Sarah’s burial site

CHAPTER 24

Isaac’s wife

CHAPTER 25

Abraham’s death and burial

Struggle at birth and birth rite

CHAPTER 26

Isaac’s deception and strife with the Philistines

CHAPTER 27

Stolen blessing and flight to Paddon-aram

CHAPTER 28

Promise of blessing at Bethel

CHAPTER 29

Laban deceives Jacob

Birth of Jacob’s children

CHAPTER 30

Birth of Jacob’s herds

CHAPTER 31

Jacob deceives Laban

CHAPTER 32

Struggle for blessing at Peniel

CHAPTER 33

Restored gift and return to Shechem

CHAPTER 34

Dinahm deception, and strife with the Hivites

CHAPTER 35

Blessings and struggle at birth

CHAPTER 36

Esau’s family

CHAPTER 37

Joseph’s early days

CHAPTER 38

Judah and Tamar

CHAPTER 39

Joseph in Egypt

CHAPTER 40-41

Joseph, savior of Egypt

CHAPTER 42-43

The brothers’ journey to Egypt

CHAPTER 44

Joseph tests the brothers

CHAPTER 45

Joseph reveals his identity

CHAPTER 46

Jacob’s migration to Egypt

CHAPTER 47

Joseph’s administration in Egypt

CHAPTER 48-50

Jacob’s blessings

The death and burial of Jacob

The final days of Joseph